- Report: US murder rate hits lowest level since 1900
Source: Axios
“Murders fell 21% last year in 35 large U.S. cities — the biggest one-year drop ever and likely the lowest rate since 1900, Axios-reviewed data shows. The decline signals a complete reversal of the COVID-era crime wave. 11 of 13 tracked crimes were lower in 2025 than in 2024, according to data compiled by the Council on Criminal Justice.” (01/22/26)
- Massive Winter Storm With Damaging Ice In South, Heavy Snow From Texas To Northeast To Affect Over 230 Million
Source: Weather.com
“A major, widespread, long-lasting winter storm will hammer parts of the South, Midwest and Northeast Friday through Monday with potentially damaging ice and heavy snow for millions from New Mexico and Texas to parts of New England. This storm will lead to widespread dangerous travel and its destructive South ice storm could lead to long-lasting power outages and tree damage. The storm has been named Winter Storm Fern by The Weather Channel. According to The Weather Company forecasters, Fern could affect over 230 million in the U.S. with snow and/or ice, two-thirds of the nation’s estimated population.” (01/22/26)
- US applications for jobless benefits inch up last week to a still-low 200,000
Source: Orange County Register
“The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits inched up last week but U.S. layoffs remain historically low despite signs of a softening labor market. U.S. filings for jobless aid for the week ending Jan. 17 rose by 1,000 to 200,000, up from 199,000 the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s fewer than the 207,000 new applications that analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet were expecting. Applications for unemployment benefits are viewed as a proxy for layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market.” (01/22/26)
- Autopsy: Immigrant died by homicide at ICE gang lair
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“A Cuban migrant held in solitary confinement at an immigration detention facility in Texas died after guards held him down and he stopped breathing, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday that ruled the death a homicide. Geraldo Lunas Campos died Jan. 3 following an altercation with guards. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) originally said the 55-year-old father of four was attempting suicide and the staff tried to save him. But a witness told The Associated Press last week that Lunas Campos was handcuffed as at least five guards held him down and one put an arm around his neck and squeezed until he was unconscious.” (01/22/26)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-el-paso-ice-detention-death-homicide-9.7055697
- Tunisia: Two political prisoners sentence to three and a half years for doing journalism
Source: The New Arab [UK]
“Two prominent Tunisian columnists were sentenced on Thursday to three and a half years in prison each for money laundering and tax evasion, according to a relative and local media. The two men, Mourad Zeghidi and Borhen Bsaies, have already been in detention for almost two years for statements considered critical of President Kais Saied’s government, made on radio, television programmes and social media. They were due to be released in January 2025 but have remained in custody on charges of money laundering and tax evasion.” (01/22/26)
https://www.newarab.com/news/two-tunisia-journalists-handed-over-three-years-prison
- Mediterranean: Pirates hijack oil tanker
Source: NBC News
“France’s navy, working with intelligence provided by the United Kingdom, on Thursday intercepted an oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea that traveled from Russia, in a mission targeting the sanctioned Russian shadow fleet, officials said. French maritime authorities for the Mediterranean said the ship, the Grinch, is suspected of operating with a false flag. The French navy is escorting the ship to anchorage for more checks, the statement said. The tanker departed from the city of Murmansk in northwestern Russia, it said.” (01/22/26)
- US regime completes withdrawal from World Health Organization
Source: Orange County Register
“The U.S. has finalized its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, one year after President Donald Trump announced America was ending its 78-year-old commitment, federal officials said Thursday. But it’s hardly a clean break. The U.S. owes more than $130 million to the global health agency, according to WHO. And Trump administration officials acknowledge that they haven’t finished working out some issues, such as lost access to data from other countries that could give America an early warning of a new pandemic. … In an executive order issued right after taking office, Trump said the U.S. was withdrawing from WHO due to the organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and other global health crises.” (01/22/26)
- Ex-con congresscritter pushes bill to bar recent ICE gang associates from satellite gangs
Source: Fox News
“A Democratic lawmaker in Washington state introduced a bill this week called the ICE Out Act of 2026, which would prohibit state law enforcement agencies from hiring anyone that has taken a job as a sworn U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term. The legislation was introduced by state Rep. Tarra Simmons, who served time for three felony convictions for possession of controlled substances and retail theft in 2011 before having her criminal record cleared. ‘In this Washington, we have worked incredibly hard to build trust between law enforcement and community,’ Simmons said in a press release. ‘In most Washington agencies, the men and women who step up to serve have developed a culture of holding each other accountable to the highest professional standards. The last thing we need is infiltration of ICE agents trained during the Trump Administration to send us backwards.” (01/22/25)
- Philippines: Journalist sentenced to political imprisonment
Source: New York Times
“A Philippine court on Thursday convicted a journalist on charges of financing terrorism and sentenced her to more than a decade in prison, in a ruling that rights and press groups said was a blatant attack on press freedom. The Regional Trial Court in Tacloban City gave the journalist, Frenchie Mae Cumpio, and her former roommate Marielle Dumaquil a jail sentence of 12 to 18 years, the maximum allowed. But the women, who have been in prison since they were arrested in 2020, were acquitted of charges of possessing firearms and explosives. … The authorities said [Cumpio’s] coverage of the community and local politics was biased in favor of communist insurgents, who have long had a presence in the region. She was convicted of being a conduit for funds for the rebels.” (01/22/26)
- Walmart found negligent for selling a shotgun used in a suicide
Source: Washington Post
“A federal jury on Thursday found Walmart negligent for selling a shotgun used in a suicide and awarded the family of the victim — who worked at the store — millions in damages. The verdict followed a 10-day civil trial in Maryland that focused on communications among employees inside a Walmart store 45 miles south of Washington. The family of the 23-year-old who took his life, Jacob Mace, said store managers knew Mace was suicidal and did nothing to ensure that he couldn’t buy a gun from the store. Walmart argued that the managers didn’t know Mace’s intentions and that he legally bought the gun after clearing a federal background check.” [editor’s note: If the guy wanted to kill himself, how is Walmart responsible? Does his family claim he was their property? – TLK] (01/22/26)
- Von der Leyen wins no-confidence vote in European Parliament
Source: Politico
“Ursula von der Leyen comfortably survived a no-confidence vote in the European Parliament on Thursday. A large majority of members of the European Parliament backed the center-right European Commission president in a confidence motion brought by the far-right Patriots for Europe group. Of the 720 EU lawmakers, 565 showed up to vote. Only 165 backed toppling the Commission, with 390 voting against and 10 abstaining. Von der Leyen was not in Strasbourg for the vote. The motion’s proponents argued that von der Leyen and her team of commissioners should be dismissed over their handling of the EU–Mercosur trade deal, which they claim undermines European farmers by opening up the European market to unfair competition.” (01/22/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/ursula-von-der-leyen-wins-no-confidence-vote-european-parliament/
- Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week, sources say
Source: Reuters
“Amazon is planning a second round of job cuts next week as part of its broader goal of trimming some 30,000 corporate workers, according to two people familiar with the matter. The company in October cut some 14,000 white-collar jobs, about half of the 30,000 target first reported by Reuters. The total this time is expected to be roughly the same as last year and could begin as soon as Tuesday, the people said, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to discuss Amazon’s plans. An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment.” (01/22/26)
- Carney Speech: The Rupture is a Necessary Part of the Transition
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp“Writ large, Canada’s move away from the US and toward China is just the latter part of Mike’s answer, in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises — ‘Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly’ — to the question of how he went bankrupt. Which, in turn, is just a waypoint in another transition. In Mike’s case, it was all downhill from the bankruptcy. In America’s case, who knows? It’s easy to just blame Trump for all this craziness, but it’s also a little bit lazy. Yes, Trump’s trade and economic policies seem purpose-built for the task of dismantling American prosperity at home and power (‘soft’ and ‘hard’) abroad. In reality, though, the American empire and the supposed global ‘rules-based order’ have been in continual decline pretty much since that happy accident 80 years ago, when World War 2 ended with most of the world’s industry wrecked, but America’s untouched.” (01/22/26)
- Towards A Complete Libertarianism
Source: Isonomia Quarterly
by Kevin Vallier“Libertarian political philosophy in the analytic tradition nears the half-century mark. Libertarian theorists have produced sophisticated defenses of limited government and individual liberty, but these defenses diverge in fundamental ways. The divergences reflect incompatible views about the nature and source of justice itself. This philosophical diversity may point toward a more complete understanding of libertarian justice. Two recent works capture these divergent strands. Billy Christmas’s Property and Justice advances a natural rights libertarianism that derives a complete theory of justice from the single principle of non-interference. Nick Cowen’s Neoliberal Social Justice builds a contractualist case for classical liberal institutions that takes seriously the epistemic limitations plaguing any attempt at social organization.” (01/22/26)
https://isonomiaquarterly.com/archive/volume-3-issue-4/towards-a-complete-libertarianism/
- The Case for Making Every Vote Count
Source: The Dispatch
by Larry Diamon“A growing share of voters (some 60 percent) are dissatisfied with the way our democracy is working and feel alienated from both major political parties. One factor is polarization: the growing emotional and policy distance and declining trust between supporters of the two parties. Another is the parties’ perceived failure to address the country’s economic and social problems. Related to this is a sense that both parties have become too captive to their most militant elements. … Ranked-choice voting (RCV) for president in November (state by state) could ease this problem by enabling voters to cast a sincere vote for their first preference, knowing that if their candidate didn’t make it and no one won an initial majority, their vote would be transferred to their second preference.” (01/22/26)
- As Republicans embrace Big Government, they are becoming “Depublicans”
Source: Orange County Register
by Veronique de Rugy“For some years now, conservatives who believe in free markets and limited government have been labeled RINOs — ‘Republicans in name only’ — as GOP liberals or moderates have historically been known. The MAGA movement flings this term as an insult and a signal that respecting the realities of supply and demand instead of endorsing price controls is a character flaw. But after watching the last few weeks unfold, it’s hard not to ask this: If believing in markets makes you a RINO, what exactly do we call Republicans who now openly embrace ideas lifted from the playbooks of Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts)? How about ‘Depublicans?'” (01/22/26)
- Greenland as a Stress Test for MAGA Loyalty
Source: Reason
by Daniel Hannan“Pollsters have long understood that the act of casting a ballot creates a bond. Once we have voted for a candidate, we feel invested in him. We don’t want to admit to ourselves that we might have made a mistake. … Will anything turn MAGA against [Donald Trump]? I wondered whether, by threatening to annex Greenland, he had found the one issue where his base would not follow him. He was elected as the candidate who would put an end to foreign adventurism, and voters opposed taking Greenland by 71 percent to 4 percent — 4 percent being, coincidentally, the ‘lizardman’s constant,’ the estimated proportion of people in any poll who will give insincere or demented replies. Perhaps that is why, as I write, he seems to be backing down from the demand.” (01/22/26)
https://reason.com/2026/01/22/greenland-as-a-stress-test-for-maga-loyalty/
- Oppose Israel’s Abuses While You Still Can
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone“I’ve seen some Australians expressing confusion as to whether or not they can still legally criticize Israel online after new ‘hate speech’ laws were passed on Tuesday under the pretense of combatting ‘antisemitism’. The answer is yes, and you definitely should keep opposing Israel and its genocidal atrocities. I am worried that these new laws may indirectly have a bit of a chilling effect on pro-Palestine activism due to Australians not understanding these new laws and what people are allowed to do without being jailed. … it is still legal for Australians to oppose Israel and to associate with pro-Palestine groups — and we should. What’s changed is that now those groups can be classified as ‘hate groups’ and banned, similarly to how Palestine Action has been banned in the UK. But this hasn’t happened yet, and hopefully never will.” (01/22/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/01/22/oppose-israels-abuses-while-you-still-can/
- Our Expanding Immigration-Control Tyranny
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger“One of the most important lessons in the loss of liberty is how the federal government, especially the all-powerful national-security branch of the federal government, enlists the support of the American people for measures that destroy their very own rights and liberties. A good example of this phenomenon is America’s socialist (i.e., central planning) system of immigration controls, which millions of Americans have come to support on the basis that it supposedly protects the nation from invaders, rapists, murderers, drug dealers, terrorists, communists, anarchists, and other scary people. By converting Americans into a fear-filled people, the federal government has been able to destroy their liberty through an immigration police state accompanies America’s socialist system of immigration controls.” (01/22/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/01/22/our-expanding-immigration-control-tyranny/
- The UK Is Allergic To Free Speech
Source: Persuasion
by Leonora Barclay“Over the last 18 months, the grip of the [Online Safety Act] has become more apparent to internet users with each click. The law was passed by the British parliament in October 2023 but came into effect in stages, the last of which was in July 2025. Among other things, it requires tech companies to take action against illegal content on their platforms, such as child sexual abuse, revenge porn, and fraud. Concerningly, however, the OSA also requires tech companies to protect children from content that is not illegal, but which is nevertheless deemed ‘harmful.'” (01/22/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-uk-is-allergic-to-free-speech
- What the Civil Rights Movement Can Teach Us About Resisting Fascism Today
Source: OtherWords
by Mitchell Zimmerman“In the mid-1960s, I joined the freedom movement in the South as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Georgia, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Those were heady years, and I am proud of my small role in the great achievements of that time. Our movement breathed new life into American democracy, inspiring and teaching people who led many of the other liberation movements of the 1960s and ‘70s. It opened up schools, education, jobs, public accommodations, voting power, electoral office, and judgeships to people of color in the South and throughout the country. But there is also a fight for history.” (01/22/25)
https://otherwords.org/dr-king-would-be-standing-beside-those-standing-up-for-our-democracy/
- A Different Midterm Milestone
Source: Independent Institute
by K Lloyd Billingsley“Redistricting measures in Texas and California have all eyes on the Nov. 3 midterm election. That contest also marks 30 years since the people of California won a victory for civil rights, now ignored by the ruling class in the Golden State and across the nation. … The California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), Proposition 209 on the November 1996 ballot, was the project of California State Hayward (now Cal State East Bay) professors Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, backed by University of California regent Ward Connerly. CCRI ended racial and ethnic preferences in state education, employment, and state contracting. … Long after the people approved CCRI, the University of California built a vast DEI bureaucracy, with UCLA paying a vice chancellor for ‘equity, diversity, and inclusion,’ a salary of $440,000.” (01/22/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/22/a-different-midterm-milestone/
- The Information War Over Antidepressants
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Peter C. Gøtzsche“Stat News hit the ethical and scientific bottom two weeks ago when they published an article by Stephen B. Soumerai, professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Christine Y. Lu, professor at the Sydney Pharmacy School of the University of Sydney. I have rarely seen so much disinformation in so few words, only 1,220. I reproduce the article in its entirety, in italics, with my comments.” (01/22/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-information-war-over-antidepressants/
- Midterms: Not About “Affordability” Just More Trump Hatred
Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder“No, the midterms will not turn on the issue of ‘affordability.’ If affordability truly were decisive, Republicans would easily retain the House and the Senate. Consider the economic backdrop. Gas prices are at a five-year low, with gas stations in several states selling a gallon of regular for under $2. Several times since Trump’s reelection, the stock market indexes have recorded all-time highs. GDP growth hit 4.3% in the third quarter of 2025. Wage growth is exceeding inflation, but as always, some benefit more than others. Inflation itself is under 3% and trending lower.” (01/22/25)
- A Government Of Influencers, By Influencers, For Influencers
Source: The Bulwark
by Will Sommer“The perverse race to find — or gin up — viral footage in Minnesota and other ICE hotspots.” (01/22/26)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/right-wing-influencers-ice-minnesota
- Why Good Intentions Are Not Enough
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Marcos Giansante“Public policies are rarely judged by the effects they produce. They are far more often evaluated by the intentions they declare. In The Vision of the Anointed, Thomas Sowell identifies this habit, not as a mere analytical error, but as a moral failure. Intentions have no causal power, results do. This distinction offers a precise lens for understanding contemporary fiscal policy when taxation is presented as social action. Taxes are seldom described as extraction; they are framed as instruments of justice, care, and/or inclusion. Language shifts attention from effects to purposes; cost fades; intention becomes an alibi.” (01/22/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/why-good-intentions-are-not-enough
- We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower
Source: Wired
by Garrett M Graff“With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.” (01/22/26)
- US Must Stop Pointing Fingers and Admit: We Are the Bad Guys
Source: Common Dreams
by Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler“Every single moving mouth and face I see in the media seems to be obligated to stress the barbarity and illegitimacy of the Maduro government to establish some acceptable moral clarity even before they can carry on with any analysis of the current political situation, or the current political conditions in the world. Likewise, each personality seems obligated to make similar statements as a prerequisite to speak on the Iranian regime and the religionists controlling the country. Each is evil they must claim, and that they expressively disagree and denounce them in all shape and form. Each is beyond the specter of acceptable civilization, they must state. Each has no inkling of morality, but is simply obsessed with power and control. This was the same in any discussion of Hamas in Gaza.” (01/22/25)
- How hugely cheap a carbon tax would have been
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall“Of course it’s possible to insist that climate change isn’t a thing, if it is it’s of no matter, or that we’re not doing it. It’s also true that whatever the truth of any of that society as a whole insists it is, it is and we are therefore something must be done. At which point we should have had a carbon tax …. At which point we would be done. Lower petrol tax and raise, modestly, taxes elsewhere and we’ve solved climate change. All of which is, of course, just a repeat of the grand lesson of the 20th century. Those places which tried to use planning, direction and insistence as a method of economic management remained poor. All of those that used markets and prices to achieve the same end, that of economic management, became grossly rich by global or historical standards.” (01/22/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/how-hugely-cheap-a-carbon-tax-would-have-been
- Housing Lessons From Spain
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Mark Nayler“Tourism might have exacerbated Spain’s housing problem, but it’s not the root cause. The gap between sluggish supply and explosive demand has resulted in a deficit of around 700,000 homes. As a result, rental rates have doubled and house prices risen by 44% since 2020. In its last Financial Stability Report, released in November, the Bank of Spain identified historically low construction levels as a key factor in the deficit. … Still, it’s easier to blame tourists.” (01/22/26)
- Fixing Central Bank Politicisation
Source: Quillette
by Jai Kedia“Trump’s assault on the Federal Reserve demands a structural solution: rules-based monetary policy that protects central bank independence whilst delivering better economic results.” (01/22/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/01/22/fixing-central-bank-politicisation-federal-reserve-trump/
- Predation Without Apology: Trump Defrocks the Long Western Tradition
Source: CounterPunch
by L Ali Khan“The Trump predation does not mark a departure from Western history; it signals the end of its traditional justifications. For centuries, Western ruling elites relied on intricate theological and philosophical frameworks to justify predation—the taking of foreign resources through force, deception, or coercion. During President Donald Trump’s tenure, these frameworks are no longer necessary. Predation persists, but its rhetorical disguise has been stripped away. What remains is the U.S. asymmetric power advantage, openly asserting itself against weaker targets like Venezuela, while remaining cautious around stronger foes like China. To understand Trump’s predatory stance toward Venezuela, Greenland, and possibly other targets, one must resist the urge to see it as abnormal.” (01/22/26)
- Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Corynne McSherry & Rory Mir“In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all kinds of terms and conditions. And because the content is digital, reselling it, lending it, even preserving it for your own use inevitably requires copying. Unfortunately, when it comes to copying digital media, US copyright law has pretty much lost the plot.” (01/22/26)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/rent-only-copyright-culture-makes-us-all-worse
- It Profits a Nation Nothing to Give Its Soul for the Whole World … But for Greenland?
Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman“Trump has this bizarrely durable ability to win by losing. He can be so appalling in his behavior, so simultaneously aggressive and craven, demanding to get his way in everything one minute then desperate for a deal — any deal — the next that one might easily forget whether he’s actually achieved any objectives at all in substantive terms. More often than not he does nothing but set his own declared aims back — and yet his domestic opponents, trying to block him as he lunges about, often wind up in such contorted positions themselves that with the next lunge he can push them over.” (01/22/26)
https://gideons.substack.com/p/it-profits-a-nation-nothing-to-give
- Heroes and Tragedy at the American Founding
Source: Law & Liberty
by Kevin Gutzman“Popular historian Joseph J. Ellis’s latest book, The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding, examines the persistence of slavery in the wake of the American Founding and the American Revolution’s impact on American Indians. Expulsion of the British from the Thirteen Colonies and John Jay’s diplomatic masterstroke yielding the Mississippi River rather than the Appalachian Mountains as America’s western boundary would have effects on blacks, Indians and ultimately the American Union that no one could have foreseen. This is what Ellis considers ‘the tragic side of the American Founding.’ What is new about Ellis’s telling of this tale is that he apportions responsibility differently than has become customary in recent years.” (01/22/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/heroes-and-tragedy-at-the-american-founding/
- “Venezuela’s Struggle for Freedom: Past Failures, Future Hopes” with Jacek Spendel and José Cordeiro
Source: Liberty International
“On January 13th, Liberty International hosted an engaging webinar titled ‘Venezuela’s Struggle for Freedom: Past Failures, Future Hopes,’ bringing together audiences to reflect on Venezuela’s dramatic past, difficult present, and uncertain yet hopeful future. The discussion was moderated by Jacek Spendel, President of Liberty International, and featured Board Member José Cordeiro as the special guest.” (01/22/26)
- Flying Is Better Than in the Good Old Days, No Matter How Luxurious Those Old Photos Look
Source: Reason
“The big lesson from the past 50 years of American air travel is that the aesthetics matter a lot less than the economics.” (01/22/26)
- So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, 01/22/26
- Advisory Opinions, 01/22/26
Source: The Dispatch
“Is Lisa Cooked?” (01/22/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/is-lisa-cooked/
- Rising, 01/22/26
Source: The Hill
“Scott Jennings calls out Cameron Kasky over [allegedly] false Trump-Epstein smear: Robby Soave.” (01/22/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5698380-rising-january-22-2026/
- The Daily, 01/22/26
Source: New York Times
“The Global Showdown Over Greenland.” (01/22/26)
- TAC Right Now, 01/22/26
Source: The American Conservative
“Trump Covets Greenland, Europe Freaks Out.” (01/22/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/tac-right-now-trump-covets-greenland-europe-freaks-out/
- Radio Atlantic, 01/22/26
Source: The Atlantic
“The Federal Government That Was.” (01/22/26)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/01/federal-government-workers-trump/685699/
- China Considered, 01/22/26
Source: Hoover Institution
“From Tiananmen to Hong Kong: Generations of Resistance with Rowena He.” (01/22/26)
https://www.hoover.org/research/tiananmen-hong-kong-generations-resistance-rowena-he